Fayetteville Fire Chief David Dayringer said 2013 was the fourth year that selling and using fireworks within the Fayetteville city limits has been legal. Previously, residents were selling them within the city illegally. Officials made their sale legal to increase revenue.

“We decided well,” Dayringer said. “We might as well let them sell fireworks inside the city, capture the revenue and provide for a few days where they could legally shoot off some fireworks.”

Dayringer said he called in extra staff to deal with the anticipated increase in activity, but the night wasn’t too out of the ordinary.

“Typically we’ll have 30 calls every 24-hour period, and this last 24-hour period we had 30 calls,” he said.

Other fire departments, like Springdale’s department, said they had more calls than usual Thursday night.

Fireworks are not permitted any more in Fayetteville, Springdale or Bentonville. Rogers is one of the only citiies in Northwest Arkansas that permits fireworks from Friday into the weekend.